All of us are creative, but not all of us have enough confidence to let those powerful inner juices flow. Here’s some advice to put you on the right path:
The TED Channel strikes again! (“Talks” again? Which is more, um, creative?)
More about good ole reliable TED is HERE
Our second favorite favorite TV and film writing contest. (You all know what the first placer is, right, wink, wink?) The only drawback to the Humanitas Prize Awards is that they’re for produced material only.
Have at it, all you deserving pros!
Yesterday we posted comedy writer Ken Levine’s tribute to the irreplaceable Neil Simon, the comedy paradigm-changing playwright who for all practical purposes set the bar for Broadway comedy (and perhaps drama as well).
We were never satisfied with any of the available interviews with “Doc” Simon, but late last night we came across an 8 part video interview with another comedy writing legend, Larry Gelbart, who worked on many of the same TV shows as Simon. Gelbart died in 2009, but his work lives on…and so do his words of writing wisdom, thanks to this video – and 7 others – in the archives of the Television Academy.
More about – and from – Mr. Gelbart HERE
Back in pre-history, AKA in the third quarter of the 20th century, one of my favorite comics was Tomb of Dracula, created by my writer-producer bud Gerry Conway and Gene Colan, one of comics best artists, whom, unfortunately, I never got to know. (He died in 2011. Oh, and he also was part of the team that created the vampire-hunting character Blade)
As a writer who often has found himself at odds with collaborating directors and artists (and the occasional actor as well), I’m always fascinated by the way the more visual collaborators like Gene think. More so now, at a time when comic book heroes and the horror genre have become so big on TV.
In this interview, we get a glimpse of how amazingly cinematic Gene. Colan’s personal universe was:
Why is a site called TVWriter™ showing a video about how bad contemporary music has become? We’re pretty sure that if you watch awhile you’ll figure it out. (If you don’t, just get in touch and we’ll sing our own little song.)
Got it now? Here’s a hint anyway: As far as we’re concerned, having NO ART is better than being stuck with corporately created art…and that’s mostly what’s filling our eyes and ears and brains in these oh-so-corporate times.
As LB might put it: “Sigh.”